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Russian soldiers march during a victory day parade rehearsal on the Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in St. Petersburg, on April 17, 2013, with the city's landmark Alexander's Column in the background. Russia celebrates the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. AFP PHOTO / OLGA MALTSEVAOLGA MALTSEVA/AFP/Getty Images less

Russian soldiers march during a victory day parade rehearsal on the Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in St. Petersburg, on April 17, 2013, with the city's landmark Alexander's Column in the background. Russia ... more

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A visitor watches the mirror 'Circles (Curved Down Under)' by German artist Hans Kotter at the ART COLOGNE fair in Cologne, Germany, Thursday, April 18, 2013. International art dealers and artists show modern and contemporary art from April 19 till April 22, 2013 at the fairground in Cologne. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) less

A visitor watches the mirror 'Circles (Curved Down Under)' by German artist Hans Kotter at the ART COLOGNE fair in Cologne, Germany, Thursday, April 18, 2013. International art dealers and artists show modern ... more

A man throws palm-frond brooms, a symbol of the new All Progressive Congress party, at a rally in Lagos, Nigeria, on Thursday, April 18, 2013. Three opposition political parties in Nigeria are creating a single, unified front to challenge the oil-rich nation's leaders ahead of the next presidential election. Together, the new All Progressive Congress party could pose the first serious political challenge to the ruling People's Democratic Party, which has controlled Nigeria since it became a democracy in 1999. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell) less

A man throws palm-frond brooms, a symbol of the new All Progressive Congress party, at a rally in Lagos, Nigeria, on Thursday, April 18, 2013. Three opposition political parties in Nigeria are creating a ... more

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In this Feb. 21, 2013 photo, a worker, right, lays gravel on the surface of a road close to Mong Pan in central Shan state, Myanmar. As Myanmar emerges from 50 years of military rule, one of its toughest challenges is to re-integrate areas like this one, where decades of fighting have engendered deep feelings of fear, mistrust and hatred of the army and, by extension, the government. Paved roads might be called Myanmar's first peace dividend, an effort by its new civilian rulers to connect some of Asia's poorest and most isolated people to their own country and show them the benefits of joining the fold. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) less

In this Feb. 21, 2013 photo, a worker, right, lays gravel on the surface of a road close to Mong Pan in central Shan state, Myanmar. As Myanmar emerges from 50 years of military rule, one of its toughest ... more

In this Wednesday, April 17, 2013 photo, an Indian girl walks past a herd of camels near salt pans on a highway in the Kutch district of Gujarat state, India. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

In this Wednesday, April 17, 2013 photo, an Indian girl walks past a herd of camels near salt pans on a highway in the Kutch district of Gujarat state, India. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

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A Palestinian youth sells corn at a beach in Gaza City during sunset on April 17, 2013 as Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza Strip marked Prisoners' Day with a series of low-key rallies, as inmates themselves staged a hunger strike. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABEDMOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images less

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A Palestinian youth sells corn at a beach in Gaza City during sunset on April 17, 2013 as Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza Strip marked Prisoners' Day with a series of low-key rallies, as ... more

Residents transfer money using the M-Pesa banking service at a store in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sunday, April 14, 2013. In the six years since Kenya's M-Pesa brought banking-by-phone to Africa, the service has grown from a novelty to a bona fide payment network. Photographer: Trevor Snapp/Bloomberg less

Residents transfer money using the M-Pesa banking service at a store in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sunday, April 14, 2013. In the six years since Kenya's M-Pesa brought banking-by-phone to Africa, the service has grown ... more

Photo: Trevor Snapp, Bloomberg

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A visitor watches the art sculpture 'Lady Burger' by US artist Mel Ramos at the ART COLOGNE fair in Cologne, Germany, Thursday, April 18, 2013. International art dealers and artists show modern and contemporary art from April 19 to April 22, 2013 at the fairground in Cologne. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) less

A visitor watches the art sculpture 'Lady Burger' by US artist Mel Ramos at the ART COLOGNE fair in Cologne, Germany, Thursday, April 18, 2013. International art dealers and artists show modern and ... more

Youths peek through a barrier as they wait to enter a stadium where Zimbabwe's 33rd independence celebrations are being held, Harare, Thursday, April, 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Youths peek through a barrier as they wait to enter a stadium where Zimbabwe's 33rd independence celebrations are being held, Harare, Thursday, April, 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

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Bloomberg Photo Service 'Best of the Week': A worker cleans the windows inside the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, operated by Mori Building Co., in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. While financial firms have cut staff in Japan, technology companies have boosted hiring, and as bankers vacated offices at Roppongi Hills, companies including Google Inc. and Lenovo Group Ltd. moved in. As early as this month, Apple Inc. will also make the complex its home in Japan, two people familiar with the plan said in January. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg less

Bloomberg Photo Service 'Best of the Week': A worker cleans the windows inside the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, operated by Mori Building Co., in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. While financial firms ... more

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North Korean children practice a musical performance at Mangyongdae Children's Palace in Pyongyang Thursday, April 18, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

North Korean children practice a musical performance at Mangyongdae Children's Palace in Pyongyang Thursday, April 18, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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Shopkeeper Margaret Munyi stands in the mud that has entered inside the stall where she sews and sells clothes, as she tries to scoop it away with a plastic washing-up bowl, following heavy rains in recent days, in the town of Narok, Kenya Thursday, April 18, 2013. Kenya's annual long rains have brought heavy flooding around the country displacing thousands of people, with Kenya's Red Cross saying that two children who were buried in a landslide in Narok county have died, and the country's death toll from the heavy flooding rising to over 40. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) less

Shopkeeper Margaret Munyi stands in the mud that has entered inside the stall where she sews and sells clothes, as she tries to scoop it away with a plastic washing-up bowl, following heavy rains in recent ... more

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 file photo, a demonstrator lies on mock coffins on which are written "State Burial, Ballot Revolution", before the coffins were carried to the Parliament and set on fire to protest against an attempt by Members of Parliament (MPs) to award themselves a $110,000 bonus, which was later vetoed by the president, in Nairobi, Kenya. Even before they begin their latest session in earnest, newly elected Kenyan parliamentarians are demanding a pay increase after the lavish wages legislators in the previous term earned were reduced, and one legislator even petitioned parliament on Thursday, April 18, 2013 to impeach members of the government commission that reduced their salaries. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) less

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 file photo, a demonstrator lies on mock coffins on which are written "State Burial, Ballot Revolution", before the coffins were carried to the Parliament and set on fire ... more

Cuban people look at the arrival of the sail training vessel of the Mexican Army, ARM Cuauhtemoc, to Havana Harbour on April 18, 2013. The Cuauhtemoc is in Cuba in a four-day official visit. AFP PHOTO/Adalberto RoqueADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images less

Cuban people look at the arrival of the sail training vessel of the Mexican Army, ARM Cuauhtemoc, to Havana Harbour on April 18, 2013. The Cuauhtemoc is in Cuba in a four-day official visit. AFP ... more

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An unidentified deputy follows the vote count on a tablet on April 18, 2013 at the Italian parliament in Rome following a second round of voting to elect a new president after a first round failed to secure a victor in a ballot many hope will herald the end of a two-month impasse over a new government but which threatens fresh political divisions. In a last-minute agreement on April 17, Italy's two main political blocs had agreed to back Franco Marini, a pipe-smoking 80-year-old seen as having formidable political skills. AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLAROANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images less

An unidentified deputy follows the vote count on a tablet on April 18, 2013 at the Italian parliament in Rome following a second round of voting to elect a new president after a first round failed to secure a ... more

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Opposition supporters comfront with police at a demonstration in Conakry on April 18, 2013. Guinea security forces clashed with protesters on Thursday as they tried to break up a rally against a government decision to hold a long-delayed election in June, leaving a number of people injured. An AFP journalist at the scene counted at least 25 injured, and saw several people, including opposition officials, arrested in the latest protest against the legislative election to turn violent. Protesters clashed with police in areas of the capital Conakry seen as favourable to the opposition, where they had planned to gather ahead of a march downtown. But they were dispersed with tear gas by baton-wielding officers, who also blocked a convoy of opposition leaders heading to the protest. AFP PHOTO / CELLOU BINANICELLOU BINANI/AFP/Getty Images less

Opposition supporters comfront with police at a demonstration in Conakry on April 18, 2013. Guinea security forces clashed with protesters on Thursday as they tried to break up a rally against a government ... more

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A Palestinian man sells toffee apples at a beach in Gaza City during sunset on April 17, 2013, as Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza Strip marked Prisoners' Day with a series of low-key rallies, as inmates themselves staged a hunger strike. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABEDMOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images less

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A Palestinian man sells toffee apples at a beach in Gaza City during sunset on April 17, 2013, as Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza Strip marked Prisoners' Day with a series of low-key ... more

A young couple share a tender moment in Red Square during a warm evening on Thursday April 18, 2013, with the St. Basil Cathedral in the background. Warm weather arrived in Moscow with temperatures around 18 degrees Celsius (64 F). (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) less

A young couple share a tender moment in Red Square during a warm evening on Thursday April 18, 2013, with the St. Basil Cathedral in the background. Warm weather arrived in Moscow with temperatures around 18 ... more

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A Pakistani army doctor examines earthquake survivors at a military field hospital in the quake hit Mashkail area of southwestern Baluchistan province on April 18, 2013. More than 12,000 Pakistanis living in a remote, impoverished southwestern desert region near the Iranian border have been affected by this week's huge earthquake, a relief official said. AFP PHOTO/ ASIF HASSANASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images less

A Pakistani army doctor examines earthquake survivors at a military field hospital in the quake hit Mashkail area of southwestern Baluchistan province on April 18, 2013. More than 12,000 Pakistanis living in a ... more

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Children walk across a muddy agricultural field following heavy rains in recent days, near the town of Narok, Kenya, Thursday, April 18, 2013. Kenya's annual long rains have brought heavy flooding around the country displacing thousands of people, with Kenya's Red Cross saying that two children who were buried in a landslide in Narok county have died, and the country's death toll from the heavy flooding rising to over 40. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) less

Children walk across a muddy agricultural field following heavy rains in recent days, near the town of Narok, Kenya, Thursday, April 18, 2013. Kenya's annual long rains have brought heavy flooding around the ... more

Photo: Ben Curtis, Associated Press

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Hundreds of Brazilian natives occupy the entrance to the Planalto Palace protesting against the Proposed Aamendment to the Constitution (PEC) 215, which gives the National Congress the power to demarcate indigenous lands, in Brasilia, on April 16, 2013. AFP PHOTO / Evaristo SAEVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images less

Hundreds of Brazilian natives occupy the entrance to the Planalto Palace protesting against the Proposed Aamendment to the Constitution (PEC) 215, which gives the National Congress the power to demarcate ... more

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An Indian Sikh devotee holds an oil lamp as he pays his respects at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on April 18, 2013 on the occasion of the 392nd birth anniversary of the ninth Sikh Guru, Teg Bahadur. Guru Tegh Bahadur, the youngest of the five sons of Guru Hargobind, was born in Amritsar in 1621 and was executed on the orders of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in Delhi in 1675. AFP PHOTO/ NARINDER NANUNARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty Images less

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An Indian Sikh devotee holds an oil lamp as he pays his respects at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on April 18, 2013 on the occasion of the 392nd birth anniversary of the ninth Sikh Guru, Teg Bahadur. ... more

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A girl holds an Argentine flag and a sign that reads "2015 without Cristina", during a protest against the government of President Cristina Fernandez in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, April 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano) less

A girl holds an Argentine flag and a sign that reads "2015 without Cristina", during a protest against the government of President Cristina Fernandez in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, April 18, 2013. (AP ... more

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Julian Rachlin the first violinist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, plays a Bach sarabande in front of the monument to the fighters of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday April 18, 2013. The performance was part of an evening of commemorations on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the 1943 revolt. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) less

Julian Rachlin the first violinist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, plays a Bach sarabande in front of the monument to the fighters of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday April 18, ... more

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A view of a photograph posted on a wall by French graffiti artist and self-coined "photograffeur" JR is pictured as a woman walks down the street in Berlin on April 16, 2013. The artist, known only by his initials, is currently working on a number of murals in the German capital as part of his "Wrinkles of the City" project. His new work includes portraits of elderly individuals who have, over time, witnessed and experienced the upheaval and transformation of the city of Berlin. AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALLJOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images less

A view of a photograph posted on a wall by French graffiti artist and self-coined "photograffeur" JR is pictured as a woman walks down the street in Berlin on April 16, 2013. The artist, known only by his ... more

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In this picture taken Tuesday, April 16, 2013, an Indian boy chases a chicken near the Hooghly river in Kolkata, eastern India. The Hooghly is a distributary of the Ganges River, which is revered by Hindus and considered holy. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) less

In this picture taken Tuesday, April 16, 2013, an Indian boy chases a chicken near the Hooghly river in Kolkata, eastern India. The Hooghly is a distributary of the Ganges River, which is revered by Hindus and ... more

Photo: Kevin Frayer, Associated Press

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